„thinking ahead" architectural conference

Live stream excerpt from THE PIT / Die Grube

HERITAGE DAY 2020 - September 27, 2020

The starting point of the land art project “The Pit” is a traditional wine cellar built more than 200 years ago. The more than 70 meter long passage way opens up to the heathland.

In 2019 Peter Noever’s land art project was placed under monument protection by the Austrian Federal Monuments Office BDA. Among the landmarked architectures selected for September 2020, “The Pit / Die Grube” is the only contemporary project in Burgenland.

Austrian Federal Monuments Office BDA
https://tdd.appwebit.com/denkmal/1440

THE PIT / DIE GRUBE – Art and Architecture Festival 2021

“Thinking Ahead” will also be the theme of the international art and architecture festival taking place in Breitenbrunn in 2021. (In preparation)

Quotes on "THE PIT"

[...] Peter Noever’s deft tectonic pit pulls earth art‘s singeing chestnuts out of the fire by confronting them with the test they could never abide, the test of use. Embracing the svelte historic forms of geometry elegant and simple, Noever assumes the art but spurns the ethic, slaking the thirst for more than Minimalism arouses. In his loopy magnificent Burgenland dacha, he has made not simply a site, an armature for spectatorship, but has crafted a place. Here‘s the difference: Noever’s work tests not the edge of sculpture but the edge of architecture. The arts of habitation are not excluded but attenuated, made to dance to a langorous yet electric tango of life floated to ritual. [...]

— Michael Sorkin — American architect, author, and educator based in New York City / text from the exhibition catalogue “UPSTAIRS DOWN”, published by Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, 1994

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My admiration for this great and internationally acclaimed landart project was endless. So far I had only known of comparable projects from the Engadin (artist Not Vital), from the West of Austria, Sussex in England (artist Antony Gormley) and from Marfa in Texas (artist Donald Judd).
— Christine König — Christine König Gallery was founded in 1989 in Vienna.

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“… eine schlichte, geistvolle Darstellung, der Freundschaft gewidmet – neuentdecktes Stonehenge –, bereit, neue Formen vom Himmelsbogen zu holen für Euch, für uns …”
— Carlo Scarpa, 1973

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“Mit seinem Projekt hat Noever mehrere Fachdisziplinen vereinigt und einzigartige Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Wohnen, öffentlichem Raum, Landschaftsarchitektur und Kultstätte geschaffen, die für ökologische Wohnbauten der Zukunft von herausragender Bedeutung sind.”
— James Wines / SITE, 2000

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Peter Noever is “Not Guilty of Architectural Sin of Sameness.”
— Elaine Louie / The New York Times, 1994

Heritage Day 2019

Talk “Luna_Portum. Urbanity. Reality”
“Art /Architecture here and now” by Nicole Six, Paul Petritsch, Rüdiger Andorfer and Peter Noever